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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2025

Filed:

May. 28, 2024
Applicant:

Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;

Inventors:

Fredrik Dahlgren, Lund, SE;

Alexander Hunt, Tygelsjö, SE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06F 3/14 (2006.01); G06F 21/36 (2013.01); G06V 20/60 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/013 (2013.01); G06F 3/14 (2013.01); G06F 21/36 (2013.01); G06V 20/60 (2022.01); G06V 2201/02 (2022.01);
Abstract

Embodiments include methods of activating a display screen of a device. Such methods include establishing respective connections with one or more candidate devices, each having a candidate display screen, and obtaining angle of arrival information of respective signals transmitted from the candidate display screens or from the candidate devices. Such methods include selecting a display screen from the candidate display screens based on the angle of arrival information indicating that selected display screen is in a direction of gaze of the eye of the user, causing a confirmation code to be displayed on the selected display screen, and obtaining an image of the selected display screen having the confirmation code displayed thereon. Such methods include activating the selected display screen from an off or locked state based on detecting the confirmation code in the obtained image. Other embodiments include host systems configured to perform such methods.


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